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Windows 7: The unremovable startup program :)

I have a rather annoying problem with a perticular program that keeps running at startup

The program itself has the option to "run at startup", but it keeps enabling itself again ...

So I thought I'd just manually remove it entirely from any place causing it to run at start. Problem is: it's nowhere to be found. No entry in MSCONFIG, no link in the startup folder, no task in task scheduler, ...

I have a rather annoying problem with a perticular program that keeps running at startup

The program itself has the option to "run at startup", but it keeps enabling itself again ...

So I thought I'd just manually remove it entirely from any place causing it to run at start. Problem is: it's nowhere to be found. No entry in MSCONFIG, no link in the startup folder, no task in task scheduler, ...

Does anyone have an idea on how to proceed ?

Do you have "Autoruns" installed on your system? If not, I would suggest using it to find the startup location;

I have a rather annoying problem with a perticular program that keeps running at startup

The program itself has the option to "run at startup", but it keeps enabling itself again ...

So I thought I'd just manually remove it entirely from any place causing it to run at start. Problem is: it's nowhere to be found. No entry in MSCONFIG, no link in the startup folder, no task in task scheduler, ...

Does anyone have an idea on how to proceed ?

Do you have "Autoruns" installed on your system? If not, I would suggest using it to find the startup location;

Autoruns was indeed able to locate it for me. Apparently it waspresent as a link in some obscure part of my hard drive, in a startup folder yet not showing in the start menu. Hence the confusion on my part ...

Sometimes a program runs as a service so check services (and drivers if any) and set startup to disabled if that particular program is running as a service. Do not set system critical services or drivers to disabled as it could cause huge problems!

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